Great footage dr. I thought I had seen about every ufo doc. out there, but I don't remember this. IMO, doesn't look at all faked to me and certainly
is not 'clean' enough for CGI. I have to agree with the professional that the shaking and auto focusing certainly lends credibility.

I wouldnt like to say for definate, But I watched a show not long ago about 2 men who built a flying saucer out of a large silver balloon with small
motors on to control it and flew it for about the same amount of time over some feilds. The program and place I forget but I am sure someone here will
remember it. The whole thing they made from custom parts and it was very very convincing.

Originally posted by theukman
I wouldnt like to say for definate, But I watched a show not long ago about 2 men who built a flying saucer out of a large silver balloon with small
motors on to control it and flew it for about the same amount of time over some feilds. The program and place I forget but I am sure someone here will
remember it. The whole thing they made from custom parts and it was very very convincing.

remember that well, it was a great model

however if i remember rightly, that one was much lower to the ground and gently popped up behind some trees and then slunk down again. I dont think it
managed to gain anything like the altitude of the object in this video. This looks more like a balloon to me if im honest

as mentioned by another poster i think this is linked with the The Great British UFO Hoax, it was a program on Uk Channel 4 about some guys who built
a ufo and flew it around Somerset and surrounding areas.

It might be an idea to try to ascertain if the photgrapher, Rod Dickinson, is not the same as the Rod Dickinson of crop circle making fame.

From our very own tinwiki :

John Lundberg, Wil Russell, Rob Irving and Rod Dickinson of England’s 'Circlemakers' have made crop circles for a National Geographic
production, Richard & Judy, Big Brother, Shredded Wheat, Weetabix, Banzai, Microsoft, Nike, Greenpeace, NBC, Scope, The Levellers, History Channel, as
well as numerous newspapers including The Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Independant. They contribute to and run the award winning web site
www.circlemakers.org As artists they have been making the circles since the early nineties and continue making their annonymous art in public by
covert nightime practice.

If other posters are talking about the Channel 4 programme "A Very British UFO Hoax " then this has nothing to do with it.

Firstly the Somerset photo, if the report is correct, is dated 7/4/98 and the Channel 4 programme was aired 7/10/03.

Secondly they "flew" their ufo at night or at least dusk.

Thirdly the hoax ufo was in Avebury Wiltshire, another neighbouring county.

And lastly it would seem that after all the effort put in by the motion-picture SFX crew it was not particulalrly convincing, apparently there was a
contingent from SUFOG there on the night, and they dismissed it as a hoax.

Here is an image of this helium filled ballon which probably does it more justice then it should as a still image does not convey the sound of the
electric motors or its unsteady progress in a light breeze.

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